Microsoft® Office Word 2007 Plain & Simple

A Few Assumptions

We had to make a few educated guesses about you, our audience, when we started writing this book. Perhaps your computer is solely for personal use—e-mail, the Internet, and so on. Or you might run a small business or work for a giant corporation. After taking these quite varied possibilities into account, we assumed that you’re familiar with computer basics—the keyboard and your little friend the mouse, for example—and that you’re connected to the Internet and/or a company intranet. We also assumed, if you’re working on a corporate network, that you’re familiar with the specialized and customized tools, such as a SharePoint site or a file-management system, that are used on the network. We also assumed that you’re using and familiar ...